This tour is for Sonya Visor, author of Who I’ve Become Is NOT Who I Am and founder of TruU Ministries.
About the Book
Who are you when nobody’s looking? It’s time to take off what hides who you truly are…the mask! Are you tired of going around family, friends and church folk with a frozen smile and a broken heart? Unmask your true identity and learn your real name as pastor’s wife and playwright Sonya Visor cuts to the heart with dynamic testimony of sexual molestation at a young age.
BEING SILENT GAVE POWER to the hands that touched her life. Can hands meant to protect you also have the power to crush your identity? YES! But when we stop allowing a mask of shame to hold us captive with CLOSED mouths, WE CAN let Jesus be real in our lives.
Discover who you have become and embrace who you really are in a book that goes past the pews and what other’s think about you — to bring glory to God by being transparent and transformed. It’s time to take off your mask and let the true you show up!
ABOUT THE BOOK
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is there no healing for the wound of my people? (Jeremiah 8:22, NIV)
Twenty-five women, including Bunny Debarge, Sharon Ewell Foster, Stanice Anderson, Claudia Mair Burney, ME and Marilynn Griffith, tell their stories of coming full circle from tragedy to triumph. Each contributor keeps it holy, keeping it real in these raw, relevant tales of redemption and restoration. Think of it as Prozac for the Christian Woman’s Soul!
A twelve week study is included for churches and book clubs. Instructions provided on gathering your own SistahFaith circle.
ABOUT SISTAHFAITH, INC.
SistahFaith™ is a revolution of restoration, bringing hope and healing to the brokenhearted and those who love them. Our goal is to communicate Christ personally, practically and powerfully, bringing women full circle in faith, arts and life. Each of our books, conferences, events and multimedia projects address the problems facing today’s women in a raw and relevant way.
Join the network of sistahs at http://sistahfaith.ning.com/.
SISTAHFAITH CONTRIBUTING WRITERS
■MARILYNN GRIFFITH (Editor)
■STANICE ANDERSON
■TANYA R. BATES
■CLAUDIA MAIR BURNEY
■WANDA J. BURNSIDE
■ROBIN CALDWELL
■SHELETTE CARLISLE
■LADY CATHERINE
■ETTERLENE “BUNNY” DEBARGE”
■DEE EAST
■SHARON EWELL FOSTER
■DORIEN HAGE
■GAIL M. HAYES
■DR. NAIMA JOHNSTON
■DELORES M. JONES, MSW, LMSW
■STEPHANIE L. JONES
■CARMITA MCCALL
■LAVONN NEIL
■CARLEAN SMITH
■DAVIDAE “DEE” STEWART
■SONYA VISOR
■LITTLE SALLY WALKER
■ROSALYN “ROS” WEBB
■ROBIN R. WISE
■KISHA WOODS
If you’ve been following me for a little while you see my signature on emails and newletters, Be TruU always! This is a place that I want to remain in because I had to fight to get here. I had to push past death and choose life. I had to learn to live with me, the Tru me. I had to become comfortable with Sonya, with the person I was created to be. It was a process because the person I had become was a total lie.
What do I mean when I say that I was living a lie?
I was walking around saying I was okay and I really wasn’t. I told family and friends that everything was great and I was going through emotional turmoil. I said, “I’m alright” and “It’s all good” so much that I believed it. Do you see where I am going with this? The truth of the matter is simply this: I pushed everything down on the inside denying myself the priviledge of being me. Learning this behavior at an early age is what made this a stronghold in my life. It was a process to become free.
In this place that I call TruU I can feel, respond and move on. If an action is required to deal with the issue, circumstance or person-I take care of it. No longer do I surpress feelings pretending that all is well or the better conclusion would be: I stopped lying to myself and others.
Today I share. I call things what they are, which can be uncut or raw sometimes. I have found that some really don’t know how to deal with this. Which, of course, has gotten me into trouble because I’ve gone from 0-10. Zero = Saying absolutely nothing to Ten = Totally free. But with that freedom there comes responsibility to have the right timing. That’s a whole other issue that I repent daily for…sort of like, “Maybe, I shouldn’t of said that.” But God is helping me with that as I continue this path of being true to who I am in Christ. I’m not a holy roller who doesn’t know who’s in charge. God is. I’m a work in progress, far from perfection but closer then I’ve ever been to being the true Sonya.
